Love the Evo, but prefer devices with a physical keyboard? Well, the rumors are true and The HTC Evo Shift 4G gives you exactly that. You get most of the power of the HTC Evo with a slide-out keyboard attached.
The Shift has a 3.6-inch 800 x 480 LCD, Android 2.2 (with HTC Sense), and the same great 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7630 processor that’s in the G2 and myTouch 4G. Naturally there’s WiMAX 4g, in addition to EVDO Rev A., and HTC hopes to keep those radios alive with a 1500mAh battery. There’s a 5 megapixel camera around back, capable of 720p video…
I say most of the power because they took away the front-facing camera. This definitely takes the device down quite a few notches. Video calling is all the rage, but it’s going to be hard to do on this bad boy without dual cameras. Maybe Sprint did their research and people prefer keyboards to cameras. Get yours on the 9th for $150.
via Engadget